I got everything installed and updated correctly. My Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2 sort of works with the emulator (the y-axis on the right analog stick doesn't pick up), but I would like to use the realflight sim controller that came with realflight basic. It has 6 Chanels. When I setup a new joystick in windows (just search it in the start menu), it recognizes it, but the Phoenix Sim starter doesn't recognize it. Is there any way I can get the Launcher to recognize it?

Okay, I figured out how to get the Launcher to recognize the Realflight Controller and run the program, but when I go to set up the transmitter, it isn't picking up the X-axis of the left analog stick aka the rudder. It shows that it picks up that channel when I select System > Your Controls, but I can't get it to set that channel as the rudder when I'm making a profile. Help please?

I have hooked up my usb controller, everything works fine except the controls are very abrupt , ie rudder when activated turns very quickly, basically its not smooth, is it possible to trim it down? or is there a cheap usb transmitter that someone can recommend and where do i buy it??

Hello, i installed phoenix succesfully and did the calibration for my SKYARTEC 8ch true flight transmitter which i bought from helipal.
Now its updating to v4.0.m but it says
USB interface not found.
i also tried run the launcher as administrator but when i hit run phoenix nothing happens.

I got it working for Phoenix v5. I noticed that the main .exe was no longer PhoenixRC.exe, that is now a small launcher, the actual program is Simulator.exe. Went into phnxdll.dll(the DLL for SimEMU) and searched PhoenixRC.exe, replaced with Simulator.exe and violla works great.

Hey Furiou5, how do you edit the phoenixdll.dll? I tried just opening it in notepad and replacing phoenixRC.exe with Simulator.exe and then saving it, but when I try to launch Phoenix via the EMU, I get an error message. Do you need to edit the file with a dll decompiler? Can you upload your edited dll?

@Furious5 first and foremost you rock for noticing the difference in .exe file names I totally missed that. For others instead of editing the DLL file you can simply rename the "Simulator.exe" file to "PhoenixRC.exe" and it'll work perfectly for Version 5. Note: there is a "PhoenixRC.exe" which is basically a shortcut to "Simulator.exe" file that you should rename first to something else.

Awedome simulator, I love it!
It works perfectly on my Windows XP running as a VM on Oracle Virtualbox on macMini, but have no luck with Windows 7.
On Windows XP, I could even upgrade it unto the latest version 5.0.r. Just need to rename the Simulator.exe file as PhoenixRC.exe. Because, the crack program (launcher.exe) looks for the PhoenixRC.exe file to launch your Joystick.

One more thing, for those who are running windows on a Oracle virtual box VM, the Phoenix will not run until you "reduce" the Video memory -
Settings-> Display->Video memory to 8MB (Win XP)
and 128MB for Windows 7.

One more thing -
For those who are using Windows on Oracle Virtualbox VM, you have to "reduce" the video memory in order for the Phoenix to launch. Go to -
Settings-> Display -> Video Memory - 8MB (WinXP)
and 128 MB (Windows 7)

excellent !!.. Thank you very much. I can update from version 3 to version 5.0.p with no problem at all. It worked great with a cheap chinese transmitter and USB adapter. Also with a JR transmitter and the same USB adapter.

This really worked for me with FS CT6B TX, which comes with USB cable( meant only for TX config and not for Sim)
However after referring rcpower and mycoolheli's work I could possible use my TX to run this sim.
I need not buy any USB based Simulator.
However u need ppjoy, t6sim and lot of patience to make it work. Even after configuring with virtual joystick u need to set up new transmitter since they are missing from the phoenix's list.
Also my throttle stick was inverted hence I had to calibrate using the phoenix.
Thank to uploader.